Professional Coaching Services
At eurekaMINDSPACE, we offer comprehensive professional coaching services designed to unlock leadership potential and accelerate career success. Our coaching encompasses executive coaching for senior leaders navigating complex challenges, career coaching for professionals planning their next move, workplace coaching to enhance team effectiveness, and Leadership Circle 360 profiling for transformational leadership development. Both Ian and Melinda are ICF coaches with extensive experience across diverse sectors, and we also collaborate with a trusted team of associate coaches to ensure we can match each client with the expertise that best fits their specific needs and goals.
As members and Accredited ICF coaches, we comply with the ICF Code of Ethics.
eurekaMINDSPACE Coaches
Ian Jones
He/Him
Specialisations:
- Executive coaching
- Ontological coaching
- Leadership Circle 360 coaching
Ian helps leaders and teams expand their impact with clarity, confidence and purpose. With over thirteen years of coaching experience across resources, manufacturing, not-for-profit, financial services and government sectors, he creates space for honest reflection, courageous growth and lasting change.
Drawing on his engineering background and executive leadership experience, Ian blends commercial acumen with deep human insight, partnering with clients to navigate complexity, strengthen relationships and align who they are with how they lead. An ICF credentialed ACC and Certified Human Potential Coach, Ian is also accredited in Leadership Circle, DISC Advanced® and other evidence-based frameworks that support sustainable behavioural change.
Melinda Deasey
She/her
Specialisations:
- Professional Development coaching
- Career coaching
- Workplace coaching
Strong, direct and compassionately honest, Melinda helps clients cut through complexity to get to the truth that creates lasting change. With twenty years of coaching experience spanning business, career, workplace and life coaching, she combines strength with deep emotional intelligence to bring clarity and dig deep to the heart of what’s really holding her clients back.
A member of the ICF and former President of the ACT Branch, Melinda is certified in DISC Advanced, PRINT profiling, NLP and Timeline Therapy – a distinctive toolkit that enables her to work at both the strategic and subconscious levels. Her approach gets results because she doesn’t stay on the surface; she partners with clients to uncover the real issues, challenge limiting patterns, and create genuine breakthroughs that stick.
Coaching Specialisations
Personal & Professional Development Coaching
Personal and professional development coaching is for anyone committed to becoming more effective, confident, and fulfilled, regardless of where you sit in the organisational hierarchy. This coaching supports emerging professionals, individual contributors, and anyone navigating the complexities of modern work life who wants practical support to achieve their goals. Whether you’re developing new capabilities, managing workplace stress, improving how you communicate and collaborate, preparing for greater responsibility, or simply wanting to feel more confident and capable in your role, coaching provides a confidential space to work through challenges, develop strategies that fit your reality, and build the skills and mindset that create sustainable success.
Executive Coaching
Executive coaching provides senior leaders with confidential, personalised support to navigate the unique challenges of executive responsibility. This one-on-one coaching is designed for CEOs, executives, and senior managers who are leading through significant organisational change, preparing for increased responsibility, or facing complex strategic challenges that require both clarity and courage. Through regular coaching sessions, executives develop enhanced decision-making capabilities, authentic leadership presence, and the strategic thinking required to drive organisational performance whilst maintaining personal effectiveness and wellbeing.
Career Coaching
Career coaching supports professionals at all levels to clarify their career direction, build the confidence needed for advancement, and successfully navigate transitions. Whether you’re feeling stuck in your current role, considering a career change, preparing for promotion, or managing the complexities of workplace relationships and politics, career coaching provides the strategic clarity and practical tools you need to take control of your professional trajectory. Our coaching goes beyond resume writing to address the complete spectrum of career development, from self-discovery and skills assessment to strategic planning and developing the presence that opens doors.
Workplace Coaching
Workplace coaching addresses the challenges teams and organisations face in creating high-performing, collaborative cultures. This coaching approach focuses on improving team dynamics, enhancing communication across different working styles, resolving conflicts productively, and developing the leadership capabilities of managers at all levels. Workplace coaching can be delivered to individuals within their organisational context, to intact teams working to improve their effectiveness together, or to managers developing their capability to lead and coach their own teams. The goal is always to build organisational strength through developing people’s capacity to work together more effectively.
Leadership Circle 360 Profile
The Leadership Circle Profile represents the gold standard in 360-degree leadership assessment, designed specifically for senior executives committed to transformational development. This comprehensive assessment measures both leadership competencies and the underlying assumptions that drive behaviour, revealing the distinction between Creative leadership (high achievement with high fulfilment) and Reactive tendencies (self-limiting patterns that constrain effectiveness). The Leadership Circle process includes extensive 360-degree data collection, individual interpretation with a certified practitioner, and ongoing coaching support to ensure sustainable behavioural change. This premium assessment is ideal for C-suite executives, high-potential leaders being prepared for increased responsibility, and leadership teams seeking to optimise their collective effectiveness.
Ontological Coaching
Ontological coaching addresses the fundamental ways you see yourself, others, and the world, the underlying perspectives that shape your actions, reactions, and results. Rather than focusing solely on what you do or how you do it, ontological coaching explores who you’re being in any given situation and how your interpretations, emotions, and patterns of thinking create the outcomes you experience. This approach is particularly powerful for leaders and professionals who find themselves repeatedly encountering the same challenges despite trying different strategies, or who recognise that lasting change requires more than new techniques, it requires shifting the lens through which they view their circumstances. Through ontological coaching, clients develop greater self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and the capacity to generate new possibilities where they previously saw only limitations.
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